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does this america look like? and i believe the best country is to create prosperity through a system that allows individuals to work and agree and create jobs. at home. a lot of system that's full of government spending, government waste, government bureaucracy, government taxation, government regulation. i don't think that's the america we want to build. and so the idea that we want to go home and attack folks and raise taxes and send more money to washington, that's just not going to fix the problem. and i believe we can get there as long as we work together. >> we are out of time. i know you've already returned to your alma mater to talk to students there about life in washington. can you give our c-span viewers here who watch the congress your overriding impression of what it's like to be in the house after your first two months here? >> guest: well, it's -- it's an amazing experience. the problems that we're facing are very challenging. but we have a new group of folks that are very optimistic. like i said t
does this america look like? and i believe the best country is to create prosperity through a system that allows individuals to work and agree and create jobs. at home. a lot of system that's full of government spending, government waste, government bureaucracy, government taxation, government regulation. i don't think that's the america we want to build. and so the idea that we want to go home and attack folks and raise taxes and send more money to washington, that's just not going to fix the...
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build america bonds to build the infrastructure of america's strong way, make it in america, and other legislation to stop jobs going overseas by reversing the tax breaks of companies taking jobs overseas, so there's the initiatives, and the republicans overwhelmingly voted against those initiatives, so all we've seen in job creation has come from the democrats. what we're seeing from the republicans is taking us in the wrong direction. we have made it clear that we will extend a hand of friendship as congressman larson said, but we will judge every initiative that comes to the floor by three criteria. one, does it create jobs? two, does is strengthen the middle class? >> three, does it reduce the deficit? all on a par with each other all on one piece. what we see with the reversing the economic recovery in the bill is not an initiative of that what will reduce the deficit. instead it's false economies that must stopped. now, we have proposed we save $41 billion at the end of last year. 41 billion cut in president obama's budget. only one republican voted for that. . . and from differe
build america bonds to build the infrastructure of america's strong way, make it in america, and other legislation to stop jobs going overseas by reversing the tax breaks of companies taking jobs overseas, so there's the initiatives, and the republicans overwhelmingly voted against those initiatives, so all we've seen in job creation has come from the democrats. what we're seeing from the republicans is taking us in the wrong direction. we have made it clear that we will extend a hand of...
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tsunami and rapid succession that had already resulted in twice as many deaths as al qaeda's attack on america 9/11 and of course no one believes that the deaths and the finding of the day is over yet. the earthquake and the tsunami have also caused fires and explosions of nuclear power plants that could have nightmares consequences for japan and perhaps other countries as well. japan has been considered the gold standard of earthquake preparedness because they had repeated experience with earthquakes, but this earthquake registered 9.0 on the richter scale. when i say that i always remember the great san francisco earthquake was apparently 7.6 on the richter scale so you can imagine the consequences here. the ways of disaster set off by this earthquake in japan have exceeded the country's extraordinary preparations. so the event of the past week in japan lind a sense of urgency to our hearing today and as we asked how well-prepared is america for a catastrophe perhaps women equal to that occurring now in japan. our committee called its 2006 report about fema's response to hurricane katrina, q
tsunami and rapid succession that had already resulted in twice as many deaths as al qaeda's attack on america 9/11 and of course no one believes that the deaths and the finding of the day is over yet. the earthquake and the tsunami have also caused fires and explosions of nuclear power plants that could have nightmares consequences for japan and perhaps other countries as well. japan has been considered the gold standard of earthquake preparedness because they had repeated experience with...
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are in america's interest. the president will visit brazil, chile and bill salvador. this is 35 minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon. i thank each and every one of you for joining us to be with the distinguished secretary for her comments on the eve of president obama's trip to latin america. we thank you for coming. welcome, secretary. it is good to see you here as well as good friends. i am mac mclarty. i had the privilege of serving as president clinton's chief of staff. i have the privilege of being a senior adviser here. dr. john is traveling today so he asked me to step in and will commute for this event on the eve of the president's trip to brazil andy al salvador and introduce our keynote speaker, which i am honored to do. madam secretary, thank you for joining us on what we know is a full schedule and the demanding time. that is the understatement of this year. [laughter] what a good friend the consulate of washington inside ambassador bob strauss meet someone he at miers, he often declares in his com
are in america's interest. the president will visit brazil, chile and bill salvador. this is 35 minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon. i thank each and every one of you for joining us to be with the distinguished secretary for her comments on the eve of president obama's trip to latin america. we thank you for coming. welcome, secretary. it is good to see you here as well as good friends. i am mac mclarty. i had the privilege of serving as president clinton's chief of staff. i have the...
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i want to thank you for your courage to stand up as americans in america before america and the world and tell the truth. as a united states attorney, i prosecuted a home-grown terrorists. he is in prison now for 30 years. it was the right thing to do. the questions that were asked today were well thought out and professionally asked. you excellently answered them, but as a freshman congressman, i think sometimes we fail to ask this question of you. doctor, i would like to present this to you and the other gentleman can respond if we have time. what do you expect from us? from congress? what should we be doing to promote the fact that this is not about a religion because i have many friends who are muslims and they love this country as much as any of us do. what you expect from us? >> thank you, congressman. i hope and pray that you develop the political will to deal with this problem. that we separate all of the theatrics and concern with vitriol and get to help to solve the problem. our enemies use the language that someone articulate as offensive. as a muslim, i do not find it offe
i want to thank you for your courage to stand up as americans in america before america and the world and tell the truth. as a united states attorney, i prosecuted a home-grown terrorists. he is in prison now for 30 years. it was the right thing to do. the questions that were asked today were well thought out and professionally asked. you excellently answered them, but as a freshman congressman, i think sometimes we fail to ask this question of you. doctor, i would like to present this to you...
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that was demonstrated for all of america to see. we are also in the process of making sure that washington begins to do what every american family and small businessperson is having to do right now. it's called tightening the belt. it's called trying to learn how to do more with less. . and inherently what that means is we got to start prioritizing the things that are important to the american people. the problem is we've seen n.p.r. and its programming often veer far from what most americans would like to see as far as the expenditure of their taxpayer dollars. that's the bottom line. nobody's on a rampage. nobody is trying to say that we don't like n.p.r. for n.p.r.'s sake. we've seen how they spend their money. it's time to prioritize. it's time to reflect the common sense of the american people, and that's why the bill takes the form that it does. it says that we've got to go, number one, listen to the executives at n.p.r. that says they don't need taxpayer funding. well, listen, we are all about looking for ways to cut right no
that was demonstrated for all of america to see. we are also in the process of making sure that washington begins to do what every american family and small businessperson is having to do right now. it's called tightening the belt. it's called trying to learn how to do more with less. . and inherently what that means is we got to start prioritizing the things that are important to the american people. the problem is we've seen n.p.r. and its programming often veer far from what most americans...
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what we want from america is quite clear. we told them, we told them, and we told the u.n., after gaddafi we are able to have and build a new libya. a democratic, free, moderate, modern. all of us are muslims, all of us sunnis.'s -- are we have no factions in libya. we are oblivion's, 100%. we are patriots. -- we are libyans, 100%. we fought against the italians, the sacrifice is quite clear. we are proud of them. there is no difference between us. there is no tribalism in libya, we are one tribe, the tribe of libya. [applause] >> after the liberation of the cities in libya, most of the cities have established civilian governing bodies. these civilian governing bodies are made up of lawyers, judges, the use of the movement you -- youth of the movement. they have done a better job and the people have seen the difference. what we see in the western press, people do not know what is going on in libya. they speak of things that are very alien. there is no civil war because there are no civilians fighting each other. there are the
what we want from america is quite clear. we told them, we told them, and we told the u.n., after gaddafi we are able to have and build a new libya. a democratic, free, moderate, modern. all of us are muslims, all of us sunnis.'s -- are we have no factions in libya. we are oblivion's, 100%. we are patriots. -- we are libyans, 100%. we fought against the italians, the sacrifice is quite clear. we are proud of them. there is no difference between us. there is no tribalism in libya, we are one...